Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)
[4]Alas! we are engaged in committing a great sin, in that we are prepared to slay our kinsmen through greed for the pleasure of a kingdom.
BG 1.44
अहो बत महत्पापं कर्तुं व्यवसिता वयम्। यद्राज्यसुखलोभेन हन्तुं स्वजनमुद्यताः॥
aho bata mahat pāpaṃ kartuṃ vyavasitā vayam / yad rājya-sukha-lobhena hantuṃ svajanam udyatāḥ
"'Alas' — the word before the argument ends and the grief takes over completely."
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William Quan Judge, The Bhagavad Gita (1890)
[6]Alas! We have resolved to commit a great sin in that, urged by the desire to obtain royal pleasures, we stand ready to kill our own kinsmen.
Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)
[7]O day of shame! when we were set to die For kingdom's sake, here stands a king and kills His kindred!
K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)
[9]Alas! we are engaged in a great sin, as we have resolved to kill our own kinsmen through greed for the pleasures of a kingdom.